Bravo Johnson
@bravojohnson
The humanities suffer from what I’d call “intellectual entropy”—a steady decline in rigor that drags down the quality of discourse, both in academia and online. The issue gets worse when STEM folks, confident in their structured disciplines, dabble in this mess without realizing they’re entering something close to rocket science-if not more so. By the time someone who’s skimmed Beyond Good and Evil once gets to continental philosophy they will mostly be “not even wrong” about most stuff Post-structuralism, phenomenology, existentialism are dense, challenging frameworks meant to disrupt conventional thinking. They’re probably more rocket science than rocket science. If people are stuck on master vs slave morality, weapons of the strong vs weak which is a far as the internet seem to go is usually because they’re lazy (lazy being a good thing usually, but not about this)
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July
@july
I’d also add that the high level concepts forged with rigor in the humanities often gets DDoS’d with empty short rhetoric, empty words stripped from their context. The worst is probably how social media (which is totally fine in and of itself, since it is just a symptom, don’t shoot the messenger) but rather the most base part of capitalism (not all bad) but the simplified part in a nutshell continues to cheapen the human experience through overselling and continuing to turn the sacred into something that can be sold
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Daniel
@dmg
I think about this a lot while watching the billionaires do the executive summary version of political theory of late. It’s embarrassing how incoherent and slapdash SV’s late start on the humanities has been. It’s like watching a mad scramble for ideological backup to plug holes in a sinking model of the social (that never worked to begin with)
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Zeen Train
@zeentrain
The hard thing for STEM folks is that they live in a world of facts that they can integrate to application. They’d enjoy Heidegger In humanities, there is a lot less settled facts and much harder to integrate into a cohesive framework or worldview. The “application” that is so important to STEM is much more abstract
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Patrick Atwater
@patwater
Well said
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Alephwyr
@alephwyr
The philosophy that aids explanation has no motive to exist.
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Gökhan Turhan
@gokhan.eth
i wasted a decade in humanities. i'm happy i've found STEM.
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Jessica Campbell x F4F
@fatwadila
Great insight! Humanities can be as complex as rocket science🌟📚
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K3🫵👁️
@keith33333.eth
or do you mean academia in general has gotten lazy. i see a decline in rigor in all of education from grade 1 and beyond. you seem like you are narrow minded blaming "intellectual entropy". what? how about the lose of critical thinking and the use of AI for cheating. maybe a simple societal solution could the way? nope society is not capable of mass cooperation. its a human problem. its not a problem of this time frame, its just more out in the open.
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